Soldering-tool



(No Model.)

'11. L. BARBER.

SOLDERING TOOL.

N0. 446,765. Patented Feb. 17, 1891.

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EDIVIN L. BARBER, OF HENRIETTA, TEXAS.

SOLDERlNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Extent No. 446,765, dated February 1'7, 1891.

Application filed Tilly 1Q, 1390. $eria1 No. 358,585. (No model.)

To all whom it mayhonoern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. BARBER, of Henrietta, in the county of Clay and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Solderings'l ools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improved soldering-tool designed for the use of tinners and others and requiring no furnace for heating the same.

It consists in the peculiarconstruction and arrangement of asoldering-tool having a reservoir for gasoline or other light hydrocarbon and a burner and a valve for regulating the combustion of the gasoline and heating the tool, as hereinafter fully described.

Fig. 1 is a side view of the soldering-tool, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

In the drawings, A represents the copper point of the soldering-tool, which point is at its butt-end scored with grooves or channels a to permit the flame and hot gases to escape around it. This copper point is screwed or otherwise detachably fastened in the end of a metal sleeve P, which,-by means of longitudinal arms G, is held in line with a rear sleeve I. \Vithin this sleeve I is arranged a tubular reservoir K for containing gasoline or other light hydrocarbon, which reservoir has a filling-cap J.

D is a burner-tube arranged within the sleeve P, and terminating at its forward end in a T-head 0, just in rear of the butt-end of the copper point, which T-head is provided with a number of slots or perforations or bolts to let, the flaming gases out of the burner. The rear end of the burner D is left open and projects through and is supported by a diaphragm it, having perforations fat the rear end of the sleeve P.

E is a coiled tube wound around the burner D, and having one end 6 connected to the reservoir K and its other end .9 communicating with a passageway T, having an opening it directly in line with the open end of burner D. The size of this opening and the flow of the gas therethrough are regulated by a screw-need1e valve '11, arranged longitudinally in line with the burner-tube. This valve is closed tightly in the rearby a stuitlng-box m,

and is provided with a crank or lever H, extending at right angles to its axis for the convenient operation of the same.

The operation of my improved solderingtool is as follows: A small quantity of gasoline is poured upon the head 0 of the burner D, being introduced through a slot 19 in the side of the sleeve. heats the burner D and the surrounding coiled tube E, containing gasoline. As soon as the temperature of the coil E has been raised sufficiently to vaporize the oil within, the valve R is opened and the vaporized gasoline issues forcibly at the opening u and enters the rear open end of the burner-tube, drawing in air with it and mixing the two, so

This oil, being ignited,

that they burn within the tubeD, and also at coiled pipe E, so that the action is made continuous and uniform.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new is 1. The combination, with the sleeve P, having an interiorly-threaded upper end and a transverse slot adjacent thereto, the copper soldering-point secured in said end and having recesses at around its base to form passages between it and the sleeve, of the burnertube D Within the sleeve and having a transverse head 0 adjacent to said slot and the base of the soldering-point and provided with flame-openings, a gasoline-reservoir, and a valved passage communicating therewith and discharging into the said tube, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the sleeve or casing and the soldering-point, of the burnertube having ahead provided with flame-passages, a reservoir, a pipe leading therefrom and coiled spirally around the tube from its upper end downward, and a passage leading from the lower end of the pipe and having a valved opening discharging into the said tube, substantially as described.

EDWIN L. BARBER.

itnesses':

JAMES J. OHrrwooD, W. F. SUDDART. 

